Satirist and lifelong wussie Josh Muggins scrutinizes modern male gutlessness from every angle and lovingly skewers such exemplary dastards from history and legend as the biblical Isaac (a willing if sulky accessory to his own sacrifice), corpse-loving weirdo Henry David Thoreau, and wine-diluting skedaddler Thomas Jefferson in this droll collection of essays and anecdotes. How do wussies face death? How do they face naked ladies, or Starbucks baristas? Denizens of the worldwide wussie diaspora (and those who love or pity them) will find themselves nodding wistfully at the answers found...

Revisiting a setting of his biting pick-up book parody How To Pick Up Japanese Chicks And Doom Your Immortal Soul, Josh Muggins concocts this smooth and fizzy cocktail celebrating his career at the fabled N. University of Yokohama. There, surrounded by affectionate students possessed of breathtaking beauty and far superior intelligence, he somehow fumbles his way through seventeen years of encounters that are by turns hilarious and touching but, alas, nonsexual. (Unless, that is, you count shaving his head for him as a sexual act, as Muggins conveniently does.) We meet the "faithful...